Rhapsodies in black
Subtitle: music and words from the Harlem Renaissance.
Publisher: Rhino
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Jazz -- 1921-1930 -- Discography.; Jazz -- 1931-1940 -- Discography.; Blues (Music) -- To 1931 -- Discography.; Blues (Music) -- 1931-1940 -- Discography.; African Americans -- Music -- Discography.; American literature -- African American authors.; Harlem Renaissance.
Genres: Discography.; Music
Other titles: Music and words from the Harlem Renaissance; Harlem :
Notes: Companion booklet for sound recording of the same title.

Contains program and background notes for the sound recording, photos, essays, and texts of selected readings.

"Timeline of the Harlem Renaissance : 1915-1937": p. 8-56 (along bottom of pages).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 97). 
Table of contents: title: Notes from a wanna-be Harlemite / by Shawn Amos; title: Stereo? Who needs stereo? / Patrick Kraus; title: Remembering the Harlem Renaissance / Gerald Early; title: Origins and visual artistry : Harlem Renaissance painters, photographers, and sculptors / Richard Powell; title: Foot stompers, cross dressers, and swingers : the big bands, singers, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance / Allen Lowe; title: All the action's uptown : Harlem nightlife / Paul Oliver; title: Poetry and short story excerpts. The Negro speaks of rivers / Langston Hughes ; Letter from Aaron Douglas to Langston Hughes (excerpt) ; The weary blues / Langston Hughes ; Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / Helene Johnson ; Long gone / Sterling Brown ; Smoke, lillies and jade! (excerpt) / Richard Bruce Nugent ; Mother to son / Langston Hughes ; How it feels to be colored me (excerpt) / Zora Neal Hurston ; No images / Waring Cuney ; If we must die / Claude McKay ; The debt / Paul Laurence Dunbar ; Soon / Leon Damas ; Odyssey of Big Boy / Sterling Brown ; America / Claude McKay ;  I want to die while you love me / Georgia Douglas Johnson ; The damnation of women (excerpt) / W.E.B. DuBois ; Their eyes were watching God (excerpt) / Zora Neal Hurston ; The day breakers / Arna Bontemps ; Sensemayá : chant for killing a snake / Nicolas Guillen ; The Negro artist and the racial mountain (excerpt) / Langston Hughes; title: Track list; title: Production credits.